Key Safety Systems Air Bags: Frontal

Key Safety Systems is recalling about 300 vehicles over a problem with the air bags. An air bag that inflates improperly increases the risk of injury.

Campaign
16E028000
Manufacturer
Key Safety Systems, Inc.
Reported
6 April 2016
Vehicles
300
Built between
May 2007 – Jan 2016
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
1 April 2016
Repaired
100%
Unrepaired
0

Does this affect my vehicle?

This recall covers vehicles built between May 2007 and January 2016. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.

  • Key Safety Systems Driver Frontal AIR BAGBuilt May 2007 to January 2016

Repair progress

The manufacturer reports every reachable vehicle in this recall has been repaired, as of Q4 2016.

100% repaired — 300 of 300 reported

Manufacturers file these figures with NHTSA each quarter. Vehicles the manufacturer could not trace, or that have been scrapped or exported, are counted separately and are not included in the unrepaired figure.

What the defect is

Key Safety Systems, Inc. (KSS) is recalling certain Driver Frontal Air Bags, model ADI Dual, manufactured May 6, 2007, to January 29, 2016. These air bags may be missing a chemical enhancer required for the second stage deployment, resulting in the second stage deploying improperly in certain crashes.

What could happen

An air bag that inflates improperly increases the risk of injury.

What gets fixed

KSS will notify the vehicle manufacturers that purchased the affected air bags, and those manufacturers will notify owners and their dealers will replace the air bag module, free of charge. The recall began on April 1 2016.

Timeline

  1. Vehicles builtMay 2007 to January 2016
  2. Recall reported to NHTSA6 April 2016
  3. Owners notified1 April 2016
  4. Latest repair reportQ4 2016 — 100% repaired

Your rights

A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.

That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 6 April 2016.

To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.

Manufacturer contact

Owners may contact KSS customer service at 1-586-726-3800.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
Key Safety Systems, Inc.
Recall initiated by
MFR

Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Additional notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

Check your own vehicle

This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.

A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.

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